tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post5002135026123330766..comments2018-03-10T03:52:39.144-06:00Comments on DREGstudios! The Artwork of Brandt Hardin: Happy 100th Gipper!Brandt Hardinhttps://plus.google.com/107992393265619554713noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-32597206313537085882013-12-22T05:25:39.909-06:002013-12-22T05:25:39.909-06:00You managed to get your last chapter, but not the ...You managed to get your last chapter, but not the last sentence, about right. Towards the end of the USSR, 70% of its GDP was for the military. Reagan&#39;s strategy worked just fine. It&#39;s much less expensive to frighten one to ruin his pants than have a full scale war. There were no actual wars during the Reagan era.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-19791365653131935352012-12-03T22:20:45.359-06:002012-12-03T22:20:45.359-06:00Is it my imagination or do I see the words &quot;F...Is it my imagination or do I see the words &quot;Final Solution&quot; and hear Adolf&#39;s ranting implied in your posting?Edgar Valderramahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12258538826275000381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-9001235698161705052012-03-13T19:22:24.258-05:002012-03-13T19:22:24.258-05:00Actually my Dad knew Reagan from the time Reagan h...Actually my Dad knew Reagan from the time Reagan headed the screen actors guild. He liked him, apparently a nice guy one-on-one, at least in the 1950s.<br /><br />In fairness, the USSR under Stalin suffered from very bad government and a lot of people were very concerned about the global threat of the Stalinist USSR.<br /><br />I too am a liberal, and I too feel that many of the worrisome trends now apparent began during the Reagan administration (both in California and in the nation), but I will leave it to history to judge Reagan and decide how much responsibility he had and how much to allocate to the conservatives around him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-60942555892239770132012-02-22T09:40:57.826-06:002012-02-22T09:40:57.826-06:00Anyone who lived through the Reagan years knows wh...Anyone who lived through the Reagan years knows what an evil idiot he was. Every day the White House had to issue press releases that started &#39;when the President said X yesterday he really meant Y.&#39; When he spoke Nancy would whisper what he was supposed to say in his ear. <br /><br />Do you remember zero tolerance? If the cops find a marijauna seed in your house they could confiscate your house - and they did. <br /><br />Remember Ed Meese? The attorney general who said that if the cops stop you should have no rights because if the cops think you are guilty then you are guilty?<br /><br />How about James Watt who spent his couple of years as Secretary of the Interior giving away our land to drillers and miners. <br /><br />The cold war ended when satellite dishes started popping up all over the eastern block and the people there starting seeing that we in the west really do have our own homes, cars, etc. Gorbachev knew the lies of the previous decades were exposed and he should be given the credit for the demise, not Reagan.<br /><br />Reagan did push the USSR to the brink of bankrupcty by spending, spending, spending on defense and the Russkies couldn&#39;t keep up. Glad that money didn&#39;t go to fight cancer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-29589000405441404432012-01-02T19:05:12.240-06:002012-01-02T19:05:12.240-06:00Well said and thanks for the heads up.Well said and thanks for the heads up.Brock Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11404173139501539265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-19001365886246603572011-10-03T16:27:59.246-05:002011-10-03T16:27:59.246-05:00Rob, in my quick response, I should have said, &qu...Rob, in my quick response, I should have said, &quot;some&quot; of the highest suicide and murder rates. Thanks for the information.Brandt Hardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09487753692973257991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-68594856006170094832011-10-03T14:38:38.949-05:002011-10-03T14:38:38.949-05:00I&#39;m sorry that this comment isn&#39;t in relat...I&#39;m sorry that this comment isn&#39;t in relation to the article, but I noticed in the last comment you said, &quot;given we have the highest murder and suicide rates on planet Earth.&quot; I was wondering where you are getting your numbers from? I did a quick search on both, and Wikipedia says otherwise:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate<br /><br />Just kind of wondering if you were being tongue-in-cheek or if there is somewhere else to do a quick reference for these types of things?Robhttp://robertlbryant.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-24017257199245179102011-08-10T17:56:32.017-05:002011-08-10T17:56:32.017-05:00Victimized Anonymous, my comment was indeed mainly...Victimized Anonymous, my comment was indeed mainly in reference to Conservatives. It is Conservative regimes which invented Corporate Welfare and the tax breaks for the extremely rich which widen the lower class by eliminating the middle class. Does this cause crime? I know that poverty does indeed cause crime, just maybe not the sort which your daughter was a victim of (and is in fact off-topic from this entire article and artwork.) You were the one who turned my commentary directing wasteful spending to outreach and drug treatment to the crimes committed against your family.<br /><br />Nowhere on my site will you see artwork promoting or condoning violence, but rather seeking solutions to or motivations behind such behavior. I only hope by &quot;agenda&quot; may bring light to such issues, which are at times predominantly American ones (given we have the highest murder and suicide rates on planet Earth.)Brandt Hardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09487753692973257991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-85787714462452172592011-08-10T17:24:11.289-05:002011-08-10T17:24:11.289-05:00I didn&#39;t say crime was isolated to the inner c...I didn&#39;t say crime was isolated to the inner city. And the more dangerous Corporate crime you refer to is not isolated to conservatives. As well, the crime of sexual assault is not caused by poverty. Unless you are in some way saying that Corporate America is only run by conservatives, who in turn purposely cause poverty which in turn excuses the raping of our children. Is that what you are saying?<br />Or , could it be that Liberal policies have totally failed in education, employment, and the furthering of one&#39;s self? Possibly, your painting of Sarah Palin placing a gun in the hand of one of your &quot;social disaffected individuals&quot; who in turn murdered several people, including a 9 year old girl. You see, you are trafficking in the misery and pain of that situation and trying to capitalize on it to promote your &quot;Agenda&quot; all the while ignoring the facts of the case.<br />So, before you try your sublime tactic of reversal, consider this... it was YOU who painted that idea into the minds of whomever sees that painting... misrepresenting the facts as they are, and profiting from the death of a 9 year old girl.<br /><br />As for misdirecting anger, you are wrong again. I simply am waiting for the inevitable to occur, which it will. At that time, my hope is that the next victim (which there will surely be one) will be someone who can defend the attackers behavior, and ultimately blame themselves for the attack... a true Liberal/Progressive. That way, no one will be hurt.<br /><br />As far as &quot;visualizing more violence&quot;, one simply has to look at your paintings. Good Day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-83182301020776995612011-08-10T15:15:23.739-05:002011-08-10T15:15:23.739-05:00Victimized Anonymous, I&#39;m certainly sorry to h...Victimized Anonymous, I&#39;m certainly sorry to hear about your daughter. Crime is an unfortunate byproduct in any society. However, crime is not simply isolated to the inner city as we have much more dangerous Corporate Criminals robbing the Middle Class and creating many of the conditions chich cause Lower Class crime. Two wrongs will never make a right though and you wishing your daughter&#39;s misfortunes on another human being only misdirects your anger. I hope you find a more practical way to cope other than visualizing more violence.Brandt Hardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09487753692973257991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-15340022947437367092011-08-10T15:03:36.330-05:002011-08-10T15:03:36.330-05:00F*ck the &quot;inner-city&quot;. If those lazy idi...F*ck the &quot;inner-city&quot;. If those lazy idiots can&#39;t make it in a free society, with a free education, a free house, free food, and a free cell phone, then they&#39;re too stupid to make it, period.<br /><br />Your &quot;outreach&quot; programs are just another tax on an overburdened society who is already paying the price for the lower classes inability to function at any perceptible level.<br /><br />The better use of our funds is to imprison, (or better yet, execute) these street criminals and get them out of society altogether. <br /><br />Then there would be plenty of money to help treat the truly disadvantaged and needy people, who really do need it. <br /><br />Liberals are unable to grasp these simple facts and always seek to blame society as a whole for an individuals problems. <br /><br />When one of YOUR children is raped and beaten nearly to death by one of the &quot;poor disadvantaged people&quot; as my daughter was, you will have a different perspective. <br /><br />Fortunately, they have pictures of the black bastard that did it ( he was at a hospital getting some free health care when he started stalking her). Unfortunately, considering he will be tried by a jury of his peers- more drug addicted sexual predators- he will probably walk. The good news for you Liberals is that he will be free to rape again. Hooray. Next time, I hope it&#39;s one of your kids!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-76461386644668799022011-06-01T00:27:34.246-05:002011-06-01T00:27:34.246-05:00All the money spent on the War on Drugs could have...All the money spent on the War on Drugs could have been channeled into outreach programs providing clean needles, free HIV tests and treatment, rehabilitation, and general education on drugs and cognitive liberties at the High School level. You could have taken a fraction of that money and cleaned up the debilitating effects of drugs on the inner city. <br /><br />What do we get instead? More violence associated with the crime incited by cracking down on trafficking and D.A.R.E.Brandt Hardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09487753692973257991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-56567398491688068652011-03-29T20:28:38.929-05:002011-03-29T20:28:38.929-05:00Say what you want about Reagan&#39;s stance, but m...Say what you want about Reagan&#39;s stance, but most Democrats, particularly inner city ones, have been just as hardliners for the Drug War than any Republican or conservative. I have only seen a few far-left Dems advocate for total legalization.Anthony Vnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-19952644047160500752011-03-14T22:34:31.813-05:002011-03-14T22:34:31.813-05:00I am still completely flummoxed by the seemingly p...I am still completely flummoxed by the seemingly pervasive deification of Ronald Reagan by the &#39;conservatives&#39; of this country. It just reinforces for me their utter lack of understanding of how the world actually works, and highlights how easily hypocrisy creeps in on those who don&#39;t.Jasonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-70832893464960991272011-03-04T00:46:21.525-06:002011-03-04T00:46:21.525-06:00It truly is amazing how people remember Reagan as ...It truly is amazing how people remember Reagan as a limited Government President when his policies were all but that of a limited Government, free-market and fiscal conservative.<br /><br />http://www.wtffinance.com/2011/03/ronald-reagan-hypocrisy-the-deficit-spending-anti-free-market-conservative/Jessehttp://www.wtffinance.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-8227603490409555512011-02-24T09:26:50.057-06:002011-02-24T09:26:50.057-06:00Did you notice how severely Rush stutters when he ...Did you notice how severely Rush stutters when he gets flustered while on Oxycontin?Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04982074130286550652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-88557561361191605582011-02-18T19:09:04.666-06:002011-02-18T19:09:04.666-06:00Limbaugh should be in prison for his serious drug ...Limbaugh should be in prison for his serious drug use.... He use to rant and rave about people who smoked pot were just awful..! The creep..RockyMissourihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13022488469940625791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-41881242393565579902011-02-07T19:08:12.531-06:002011-02-07T19:08:12.531-06:00Sad thing is that both Reagan and the communist sc...Sad thing is that both Reagan and the communist scum both shared a belief that drugs should be illegal and that governments should prevent and punish people for using them.ejhickeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-16754498824621192032011-02-06T14:57:39.732-06:002011-02-06T14:57:39.732-06:00I added it for you to the main post Dan! It kinda...I added it for you to the main post Dan! It kinda exemplifies what I was trying to subversively say.Brandt Hardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09487753692973257991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-7331848725989575502011-02-06T14:49:37.053-06:002011-02-06T14:49:37.053-06:00OH... that just brought so much joy to my heart so...OH... that just brought so much joy to my heart so see Rush eat it like that!Brandt Hardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09487753692973257991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113810428079736580.post-4693363344964108902011-02-06T09:27:05.117-06:002011-02-06T09:27:05.117-06:00A pretty good clip from the site CrooksandLiars.co...A pretty good clip from the site CrooksandLiars.com on this topic: <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGhR2VnVma0&amp;feature=player_embeddedDanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860546729521326746noreply@blogger.com